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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
Site Recovery Manager Administration Guide
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Thischapterincludesthefollowingtopics:
“InstallSiteRecoveryManager”onpage 28
“UpdateSiteRecoveryManager”onpage 31
“UpdateSiteRecoveryManager”onpage 31
Install Site Recovery Manager
BeforeinstallingSRM,ensurethatyoucompletedalltherequirementslistedin
Chapter 2,“SystemRequirements,”onpage 19.Inparticular,youneedthefollowing
informationforeachsite:
ThehostnameorIPaddressofarunningVirtualCenterServer—SRMand
VirtualCentercanresideonthesamehostorondifferenthosts.DuringSRM
installation,youmustsupplytheVirtualCenterhostnameorIPaddress.
TheusernameandpasswordoftheVirtualCenteradministrator—DuringSRM
installation,youmustsupplyavalidusernameandpasswordforthe
VirtualCenteradministrator.
AusernameandpasswordfortheSRMdatabase—Formoreinformation,see
“SRMDatabaseRequirements”onpage 21.
To install SRM
1LogintotheserverhostonwhichtoinstallSRM.
ToinstallSRM,youmustloginasamemberofthehost’sAdministratorsgroup.
2 DownloadtheSRMinstallationfiletoafolderon
thehost,oropenafolderonthe
networkthatcontainsthisfile.
3Double‐clicktheSRMinstallericontobegininstallation.
TheinstallerexaminesthesetofinstalledVMwaresoftwareonthehost.Ifitdetects
anexistinginstallationofSRM,itpromptsyoutoverifythatyouwantto
update
theexistinginstallation.FormoreinformationaboutupdatingSRM,see“To
updateSRM”onpage 31.
4ClickNextontheWelcometotheinstallationwizardscreen.
5OntheLicenseAgreementpage,clickIacceptthetermsinthelicenseagreement
andthenclickNext.
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OTEDuringinstallation,SRMstoresthehostnamesoftheSRMserverand
VirtualCenterserverhosts.Ifyouhavetochangeeitherofthesehostnames,youmust
re‐installSRM.